On Wednesday, the veteran reporter announced his retirement from CBS' Sunday-night news magazine – where, after 46 years, he ranks as its longest-serving correspondent.

CBS will honor the 84-year-old newsman with a one-hour special, Morley Safer: A Reporter's Life, this Sunday at 8/7c.

Safer's first season as a regular 60 Minutes correspondent began in 1970 with a story about the training of U.S. Sky Marshals, and wrapped with his 919th report — a profile of Danish Architect Bjarke Ingels — in March.

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NEW YORK - JANUARY 1: CBS News correspondent Morley Safer crouches to avoid hostile fire as he reports from Vietnam in 1965. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

MEKONG DELTA - JANUARY 1: American news broadcaster Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS News, as he reports from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam during the Vietnam War 1965. Photo is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

CNN's Larry King interviews Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft and Bob Simon of the '60 Minutes' anchor team during a taping of 'Larry King Live' on Tuesday, June 8, 2004. The show will air on Monday, June 14, 2004 at 9:00pm ET. (Photo by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/WireImage)

NEW YORK - MAY 16: 60 Minutes correspondent/co-host Morley Safer shows off his 5 Peabody Awards during the 64th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon held at the Waldorf-Astoria May 16, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Fernando Leon/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 21: CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer attends the 18th Annual Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame Awards at the Waldorf Astoria Basildon Room on October 21, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 20: Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (L) and CBS correspondent Morley Safer attends the Ralph Lauren Fall 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Skylight Studio on February 20, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORKÂÂSEPT. 17, 2009ÂÂ60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer has been with the show for 39 years. (Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Journalist Morley Safer and wife Jane Safer attend the premiere of 'Tin Men' on February 18, 1987 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 10: Morley Safer attends the 'Veep' screening at the Time Warner Screening Room on April 10, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

A Reporter's Life will chronicle Safer's rise in the '50s and '60s as a distinguished war reporter, including "his 1965 CBS News dispatch that changed war reporting when it showed Marines torching the homes of Vietnamese villagers," according to the network. It will also highlight "his 60 Minutes investigation that freed Lenell Geter, a black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Texas."

"After more than 50 years of broadcasting on CBS News and 60 Minutes, I have decided to retire," said Safer, in a release. "It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air," said Safer. "But most of all I thank the millions of people who have been loyal to our broadcast."

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